Life isn't black and white. It's a million gray areas, don't you find?

How can you look at the galaxy and not feel insignificant?

I think, at the end of the day, filmmaking is a team, but eventually there's got to be a captain.

When you're in the editing room, the dangerous thing is that it becomes like telling a joke again and again and again. Eventually, the joke starts to not be funny. So you have to be careful that you're not throwing the baby out with the bath water.

In my view, the only way to see a film remains the way the filmmaker intended: inside a large movie theater with great sound and pristine picture.

In film, it's very important to not allow yourself to get sentimental, which, being British, I try to avoid. People sometimes regard sentimentality as emotion. It is not. Sentimentality is unearned emotion.

In science fiction, we're always searching for new frontiers. We're drawn to the unknown.

That's part of the policy: To keep switching gears.

On rare occasions, Dad used to reminisce about when he met Eisenhower and how Churchill would pop in, in the late hours of the evening or night, carrying a cigar, when he'd obviously had a good dinner.